Proverbs

Well that is a good question, the author, Mary Stevenson wrote it, but I believe she blended it from different verses that she read. The "I will never leave you nor forsake you" comes from many verses as it was written many times in the bible. Three of the verses that it comes from are, Deuteronomy 31:6,8 and Joshua 1:5. Another verse I think she uses comes from Psalms 23:4 which says "Even though I walk through the valley of the Shadow of death I will fear no evil for you are with me." Meaning that even in the darkest times He is with you. The last verse that comes to mind that she used is Isaiah 63:9, "In all their suffering he also suffered, and he personally rescued them. In his love and mercy he redeemed them. He lifted them up and carried them through all the years."

This is just my opinion, but I hope it helps.

This is how you can explain your answer:

All of us have heard this proverb''All that glitters is not gold''.But there are only few people who truly understand its meaning and use it their lives.

We know that gold is a glittering metal.It is very valuble and possessive in this world.We all work our best to achieve the gold that we need.

But what we do not or should know is that valuble or glittering things are not everything in this world.This means that our hard work and goals in life should be the gold in front of our eyes instead of real literal gold.We must always remember that success in life is the most valuble gold in our entire life.

Let us therefore remember to work our best and achieve the ''gold'' that we require in our everyday life.

-Cheryl Ramona Daniel

The Founder of Buddhism was the historical Buddha (which means the Fully Enlightened One), born in Nepal (year 623 B.C.) as Prince Siddhartha of the Sakya Kingdom. The natives of ancient Nepal were the Kirat people (Tamang, Sherpa, Rai, Gurung etc.), better known as the Gurkhas today.

Prince Siddhartha left Nepal (in the Himalayan mountain range) at the age of 29 years old, crossed over to ancient India and eventually gained Enlightenment (Bodhi) at the age of 35 years old, at a place subsequently named as Bodhi Gaya. He became the Buddha.

The key teachings of the Buddha, encapsulated in the Four Noble Truths, are:

1. Living a simple life of love, non-violence and compassion will result in a person getting reborn in heaven, or in good circumstances as a human being. The former is consistent with Christ's Teachings. For the latter, clinical cases of human rebirth have been extensively researched and published by Dr. Ian Stevenson, MD and university Professor.

2. Practising meditation / yoga / Zen together with point 1, will bring about spiritual happiness here and hereafter. This is consistent with Laozi's Teachings.

3. Practising points 1 and 2, together with the initial knowledge of the intrinsic nature of all worldly things (impermanence, insubstantiality and insatisfactoriness) will lead to the end of rebirth, and go beyond heavenly existence. This is termed as Nibbana (Nirvana), which the Buddha has described to us as Highest Happiness, Freedom, Unique and Beyond Space-Time Continuum. Nibbana is not existence nor extinction.

4. The precise method for point 3 is known as the Noble Eight-fold Path.

At the age of 80 years old, the historical Buddha entered into Final Nibbana (Parinibbana). 500 years later (year 57 A.D.), the Buddha appeared in a dream to the Han Emperor Mingdi, which prompted the Emperor to ask his Court the next day about 'a golden man with light shining from his neck'. This account is recorded in China's historical archives. One of the official said he had heard of a holy man in the western region, who had find immortality and whose skin was golden. Subsequently, Han Mingdi sent an expedition to found out more. This marked the spread of Buddha's Teachings from the western region (Himalayas), and also India, into the central plains of ancient China.

2600 years later, Albert Einstein said:

"There is a third stage of religious experience…the individual feels the futility of human desires…beginnings of cosmic religious feeling already appear at an early stage of development, e.g., in many of the Psalms of David and in some of the Prophets. Buddhism…contains a much stronger element of this."

Robert Oppenheimer said:

"If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no'. If we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no'. If we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no'. The Buddha has also given such answers when asked (about Parinibbana)."

Niels Bohr said:

"For a parallel to the lesson of atomic theory...(we must turn) to those kinds of epistemological problems with which already thinkers like the Buddha and Laozi have been confronted, when trying to harmonize our position as spectators and actors in the great drama of existence."

Most likely not. I believe the old man he met on the road before giving up his previous life was enlightened. which encouraged him to become a buddha which translates into the enlighten one, to teach people how to end suffering. Also there where tons of other people at the time how could have been enlightened at the time that were not recorded in history.However Siddhartha Gautama is probably the most well known.

REALLY!

Well I believe that Siddhartha Gautama wasthe first Buddha. He was a prince, his father gave him everything he wanted. One day he left his royal palace (castle whatever) and wondered around not eating and searching for the answer on why people suffer why where they sad? He believed that if he suffered, he would find the answer. And then a bunch of other stuff happened! LOL

ALL THOUGH, YOUR PROBABLY RIGHT! XD

Man is master of the word he keeps inside his stomach but he becomes slave of the word that escapes his lips. (African proverb)

The mouth is the sward[sic] that cuts the stomach of a man

The blade of the knife can be pointy but it will never be able to cut it's own handle